Considering the selected price point of the Gigabyte R7 250X OC video card, which is in fact a renamed Radeon HD 7770, we should not expect stellar performances at Full HD resolutions and more, even if we have plenty of connectivity options for this card. When we have tested the R7 250 from HIS, we have seen that it was insanely overclockable but we have only succeeded to surpass a regular Radeon 7750. With the R7 250X we will see that the card can deliver much more performance right from the start, so we were able to see the card performing quite well at 1680x1050 resolutions, some games even getting over 60 frames per second. There were quite a few releases which could not deliver this much, so for those we have two options: we will either skip some of the detail levels or try downgrading the resolution a bit.

Regarding strictly at the Gigabyte 250X OC model, we were surprised that the manufacturer does not skip the level of quality even at entry-level cards, so with this model we were able to see a custom fan model along with a large heatsink (dual-slot), which succeeds to keep the temperatures at very low levels even after long periods of usage in Full-Load. One important factor to be mentioned is that the card succeeds to remain silent at all times, so we are not afraid to recommend it for HTPC builds, where we could also do some light gaming.

The card was overclocked from the factory, as previously mentioned but we also went ahead and raised the frequencies further in order to see how much can it go up. We were able to go up to 1130Mhz for the core by using the OC Guru II application, nearing 5000 points in 3DMark11, Performance Mode.

The tested card is available online for about 81 Euros and as how we have mentioned earlier in the review, a 2GB version is also available for about 90 Euros.

Gigabyte R7 250X OC 1GB GDDR5 Video Card is Recommended For:

We would like to thank AMD Canada for making this review possible!